Gifts of the taiga
Realizing the importance of forests for the economy of the Far East, WWF together with partners demonstrates the potential of developing
Since 2007, with the support of WWF, about 664 thousand hectares of valuable forests of the Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krai: Bikinsky, Eastern, Melnichnaya, Koksharovskaya, Avanska, Gasinskaya and Bolonskaya walnut farming zones (WFZ), have been leased for 49 years for harvesting food forest resources and collection of medicinal plants. Herein, in the territory of best untouched cedar forests tenants have appeared who were vitally interested in preserving «feeding trees» and the forest environment and getting maximum benefit not from logging but from development of